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Margaret Whitman  

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  • 1957– Entrepreneur Margaret C. (Meg) Whitman is the business executive who has shaped the eBay online auction site into one of the World Wide Web's most successful businesses. She has overseen the site's transition from its roots as a hobby site selling Pez dispensers into a huge, multifaceted marketplace where it is possible to bid on and buy anything from classic baseball cards to real estate. [Source: Encyclopedia of New Media; Whitman, Margaret]

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